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20TH GAINESVILLE LATINO FILM FESTIVAL (2024)
LATINA WOMEN’S LEAGUE

(September 12-29)

The Latina Women’s League is proud to present the 20th Gainesville Latino Film Festival (GLFF), Sept. 12-29, 2024. https://www.gainesvillelatinofilmfestival.org

This Stolen Country of Mine
Thursday, September 12th
6:00-9:00pm

This Stolen Country of Mine

Documentary
Spanish with English Subtitles

Guest Speaker: Dr. Carmen Martinez Novo
Guest Artist: Carlos Andres Vera, Ecuadorian Director

Harn Museum of Art
3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL 32608

Home is somewhere else
Friday, September 13th
6:00-8:00pm

Home is Somewhere Else

Teens and Young Adults Night

Blount Hall Auditorium at Santa Fe College
530 W University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601

Vivo
Saturday, September 14th
3:00pm-5:00pm

Vivo

Kids and Family Afternoon

Blount Hall Auditorium at Santa Fe College
530 W University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601

Encanto
Sunday, September 15th
3:00pm-5:00pm

Encanto

Headquarters Library (ACLD)
401 E University Ave., Gainesville, FL 32601

Propagandia
Thursday, September 19th
6:00pm-8:00pm

Propagandia

Ecuadorian Presidential Propaganda

*ECUADORIAN FILMMAKER: CARLOS ANDRES VERA
Speaker: Dr. Carlos de la Torre, director, Center forLatin American Studies, University of Florida

Matheson History Museum
513 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601

Katarzyna Walecka Workshop
Thursday, September 19th
1:00pm

Katarzyna Walecka Workshop

Details forthcoming

Location: TBA

The Candidate
Friday, September 20th
6:00pm-8:00pm

The Candidate

Teens and Young Adults Night

Blount Hall Auditorium at Santa Fe College
530 W University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601

Lecture
Saturday, September 21st
5:00pm-7:00pm

NO

Chilean Campaign to Recover Democracy

Guest Speaker: Dr. Cristian Pérez Muñoz, Dept. of Political Science, University of Florida

UF Smathers Library
1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611

Coco
Saturday, September 21st
6:00pm-8:00pm

Coco

Kids and Family Afternoon

Blount Hall Auditorium at Santa Fe College
530 W University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601

Free to Move: Film Screening
Tuesday, September 24th
6:00pm

Free to Move? Im/Mobilities Series Film Screening: Green Border

Join the Center for European Studies for the first film screening in our fall series, “Free to Move? Im/Mobilities in Europe”!

The first screening will be “Green Border,” held on Tuesday, September 24 in the Reitz Union Auditorium.

The series is co-sponsored by the CLAS Center for Humanities in the Public Sphere and the Center for European Studies.

About the movie:

A family of refugees from Syria, an English teacher from Afghanistan and a border guard all meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis in Belarus.
Free

Reitz Union Auditorium
686 Museum Rd, Gainesville, FL 32603

Free to Move Series: Nilgun Bayraktar
Thursday, September 26th
5:00pm

Free to Move Speaker Series: Nilgun Bayraktar

Join the Center for European Studies for the first talk in our fall series, “Free to Move? Im/Mobilities in Europe”!

Our first talk will be given by Nilgun Bayraktar, Associate Professor, Art and Visual Culture, California College of the Arts. Her talk will be on Border Futurities and countermemory in the cinema of displacement.

The talk is sponsored by the CLAS Center for Humanities in the Public Sphere and the Center for European Studies.

Free

215 Dauer Hall
228 Buckman Dr, Gainesville FL 32611

LEcture
Thursday, September 26th
6:00pm-8:00pm

The Shadow of the Sun

Teens and Young Adults Night

Venezuelan Filmmaker: Miguel Ferrer

Center for Independent Living (CIL)
222 SW 36th Terrace, Gainesville, FL 32607

Memories of my Father
Sunday, September 29th
5:00pm-7:00pm

Memories of my Father

Documentary

Guest Speaker: Dr. Julian Restrepo Sanin

UF Smathers Library
1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611

Free to Move Film Screening
Thursday, October 24th
7:30pm

Free to Move? Im/Mobilities Series Film Screening: Roads

Join the Center for European Studies for the second film screening in our fall series, “Free to Move? Im/Mobilities in Europe”!

The first screening will be “Road,” held on Thursday, October 24 in the Reitz Union, Room G320.

The series is co-sponsored by the CLAS Center for Humanities in the Public Sphere and the Center for European Studies.

About the movie:

Two lost teenage boys, from Congo and Britain, meet in Morocco and take a road trip in a stolen RV to France, encountering poverty and refugees on the way.
Free

Reitz Union, Room G320 686 Museum Rd, Gainesville, FL 32603

Free to Move Series: Michael Gott
Wednesday, October 30th
4:30pm

Free to Move Speaker Series: Michael Gott

Join the Center for European Studies for the second talk in our fall series, “Free to Move? Im/Mobilities in Europe”!

Our first talk will be given by Michael Gott, Professor, French and Media Studies, University of Cincinnati. His talk will be on mapping Europe on screen.

The talk is co-sponsored by the CLAS Center for Humanities in the Public Sphere and the Center for European Studies.
Free

Friends of Music Room, University Auditorium
333 Newell Drive, Gainesville, FL 32611

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